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- Died at Marietta or Allatoona, Georgia in Civil War?
Register of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War 1861-65 (NJ Roster) Published in 1876. Died of chronic diarrhoea at 4th Div. Hosp., Allatoona, Ga., July 4, '64; buried at Nat. Cemetery, Marietta, Ga., Sec. C, Grave 877, 2099.
John died during the Civil War as a union soldier. He is buried at George National Cemetery, Marietta, Ataloona, Georgia. He died of chronic diarrhea (dysentery). Notes found about this disease are as follows: "The culprit in most cases of wartime illness, however, was the shocking filth of the army camp itself. An inspector in late 1861 found most Federal camps 'littered with refuse, food, and other rubbish, sometimes in an offensive state of decomposition; slops deposited in pits within the camp limits or thrown out of broadcast; heaps of manure and offal close to the camp." As a result, bacteria and viruses spread through the camp like wildfire. Bowel disorders constituted the soldiers' most common complaint. The Union army reported that more than 995 out of every 1,000 men eventually contracted chronic diarrhea or dysentery during the war; the Confederates fared no better."
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